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A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit by Melody Godinez against labor leader Mickey Kasparian.

Godinez accused Kasparian of sexual assault. Kasparian denies all of the allegations

The settlement means that all three recent lawsuits against Kasparian have reached a conclusion. The terms of each of the agreements are private.

Politically influential labor leader Mickey Kasparian and a woman who accused him of sexual assault have reached a confidential settlement to a lawsuit.Kasparian and the plaintiff, Melody Godinez, reached an agreement on Feb. 20, according to court records. The details of the settlement have not been made public. The conclusion of this case brings a close to the last of three recent lawsuits against Kasparian and the union he leads, the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 135. Kasparian has categorically denied all the allegations in all of the lawsuits against him.

Neither Kasparian nor his lawyer responded to requests for comment.

Dan Gilleon, the lawyer who represented Godinez as well as two other women who sued Kasparian, said he could not comment about the terms of the settlements. He said that even though their cases are over, the women still want others to speak out against sexual misconduct.

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“I can say that although my clients settled their cases, they remain supporters of the #metoo movement and want other women being abused by powerful men to use their experiences as motivation to speak out too,” Gilleon said in an email.

A county government employee who is active in San Diego’s organized labor communities, Godinez sued Kasparian in Superior Court in December and accused him of sexual assault. In her complaint and during a deposition in an earlier lawsuit, Godinez said Kasparian pinned her to the sofa in his Mission Valley office, that he groped her on four occasions, and that tried to get her to participate in group sex.

“I felt like I was being raped,” Godinez said in the deposition, referring to the alleged assault in Kasparian’s office.

In a statement released shortly after Godinez sued, Kasparian said that Godinez had previously threatened him.

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“The absolute truth here… is that Ms. Godinez has been repeatedly inappropriate in the past and has also threatened revenge against me personally,” he said.

The settlement follows agreements in two earlier lawsuits against Kasparian. Isabel Vasquez, a former Local 135 employee, sued the labor leader in late 2016, accusing him of pressuring her into a sexual relationship starting shortly after she was hired by the union in 2001 until she retired in in 2016. That case was settled privately in January.

Sandy Naranjo also sued Kasparian in late 2016, accusing him of firing her in retaliation for a stance her husband’s rival union took on a political issue. A settlement in that lawsuit was also reached in January.

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